"Old Ellavale" Mascot Road, Fords Bridge NSW 2840

Situation & Services:
117km Northwest of Bourke, 49km from Fords Bridge
Rural Power, STD Telephone, Mail twice weekly from Bourke.

Area:
7,204 Hectares - 17,802 Acres. Perpetual Western Lands Lease.

Carrying Capacity: 1,489 D.S.E

Improvements:
Older 3 Bedroom house that is corrugated iron, weatherboard, and part fibro construction. Main bedroom with built in robe, open verandahs on three sides and part enclosed louvered verandah. Wood heater slow combustion stove and electric hot water system. Majority of the house has been freshly painted on the inside.

8x5m Steel construction lockup shed sits adjacent to the house yard.

Good set of steel construction cattle yards with loading ramp, race with makeshift head bail. The yards are also used to handle goats. Joining these yards there is a trapped enclosure incorporating a cooler and water yards that has a permanent 13,500L poly molasses tank piped to a molasses trough.

Country:
Flat to undulating sandplain country with soft sandy rises. There is also small area of saltpan lake.

Very well grassed Mulga country. Wooded and open areas with mix of high and low Mulga. Some box flats and swaps that are linked by semi-local water courses. Other timber includes Bloodwood, Ironwood, Silverleaf Ironbark and some woody shrubs.

Grasses are made up of Wiregrass, Woolybutt, Silvergrass, Mulga Mitchell & Mulga Oats.

Fencing:
Boundary is goat proof steel hinged joint. "Old Ellavale" is fenced into one paddock with 3 hinged joint water enclosures.

Water:
Old Ellavale Well at the homestead is equipped with an electric submersible pump (at 130ft) and supplies the homestead 5000G tank and trough adjacent to the house. Great water with good supply.

Unc's Bore is situated adjacent to the cattle yards in the center of the property, it is a dribbling artesian bore that is equipped with a Grundfos Submersible pump and sun seeking solar system.

Water is provided to a 180,000L Pioneer Water Tank in the cattle yard enclosure and two water enclosures to the north and south. Both enclosures are hinged joint fenced with spear traps.

Unc's Bore overflows into an excavated hole in the water enclosure. There are four small ground tanks located around the property.

Carbon:
There is an Avoided Deforestation Carbon Project attached to "Old Ellavale". Full details provided to qualified purchasers after signing an NDA.

Remarks:
"Old Ellavale" is estimated to run 200 Cows and Calves, suited and setup to run a goat and dorper operation. Adjoining "Strathern" is being offered independently allowing a buyer to put together a total of 39,367 acres if they wish.